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The Impact of Subsidies on Measuring Productivity and the Sources of Economic Growth

 

 

Taxes and subsidies drive a wedge between prices received and paid by producers and those paid by purchasers. Motivated by the large economic subsidies that were part of the policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper introduces a new treatment for taxes and subsidies into the BEA-BLS… Read more

By Jon D. Samuels, Corby Garner, Justin Harper
Published

An Application of the Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition to the Price Deflation Problem

 

 

We apply the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method used in the labor literature to split changes in average prices into inflation and quality components. The inflation measure is a full imputation Törnqvist price index. Using this index to deflate nominal spending properly allocates changes in the… Read more

By Ana M. Aizcorbe, Jan de Haan
Published

Studies on the Value of Data

 

 

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis has undertaken a series of studies that present methods for quantifying the value of simple data that can be differentiated from the complex data created by highly skilled workers that was studied in… Read more

By Rachel Soloveichik
Published

The Increasing Pace of Weather-Related Cost Shocks: Should Net Domestic Product be Affected by Climate Disasters?

 

 

The monetary costs of weather and climate disasters in the U.S. grew rapidly from 1980 to 2022, rising more than five percent in real terms annually, and implying a faster depreciation of real assets. We argue that the expected depreciation from these events could be included in consumption of… Read more

By Brian Sliker, Leonard Nakamura
Published